Intel Pentium G3450 vs AMD A8-3800. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Family
  Intel Pentium AMD A
• Generation
  5 1
• CPU group
  Intel Pentium G3000 AMD A8-3000

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.40 GHz 2.40 GHz
• CPU Cores
  2 4
• Turbo (1 Core)
  No turbo 2.70 GHz
• CPU Threads
  2 4
• Hyperthreading
  No No
• Overclocking
  No Yes
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics (Haswell GT1) AMD Radeon HD 6550D
• GPU frequency
  0.35 GHz 0.60 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  1.10 GHz No turbo
• Execution units
  10 5
• Shader
  80 400
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 1 GB
• Max. displays
  3 2
• Generation
  7.5 3
• DirectX Version
  11.1 11
• Technology
  22 nm 32 nm
• Release date
  Q4/2012 Q2/2011

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VP9
  No No
• VP8
  No No
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD A8-3800 and Intel Pentium G3450. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR3-1600 DDR3-1600
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0
• PCIe lanes
  16

• AES-NI
  Yes No

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Pentium G3450 and AMD A8-3800 to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  54 W 65 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Pentium G3450 and Intel Pentium G3450, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2 SSE3, SSE4a
• L3-Cache
  3.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Haswell S Llano (K10)
• Technology
  14 nm 32 nm
• Socket
  LGA 1150 FM1
• Release date
  Q2/2014 Q3/2011